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Rating:  - Excelent reference
This book is part of a "collection" for the most important distros, and the authors did a great job in the selection of subjects and examples.
The only thing I don't like at all is the big cut-and-paste made in several chapters between the books of this "collection", I think starting from the "fedora sibling" one. For example, on page 240 of the "ubuntu sibling" you may see a ftp session showing how to get a Fedora 7 iso image; on page 157 they forgot to translate a "yum install...".
So mi only advice is to the people planning to buy all the collection: compare first before because a lot is verbatim repeated.
Considered alone, this book is very good for several reasons the other reviewers did write and I totally agree.
Rating:  - Great for the ubuntu enthusiast
This book is a great book. I didn't buy it from Amazon but I felt I needed to give it some credit.
Rating: - Just found this one.
I just picked this book up at a local Borders (cheaper here, btw). After looking through their entire section trying to find an up-to-date book on Linux commands for the purposes I wanted, I chose this one.
Although Ubuntu is often called "Linux for Human Beings" or "Linux for non-geeks", I wanted to get geekier with the command line and have better control over my Ubuntu PCs. This book is perfect for someone who isn't afraid to tinker a little to get a lot in return. The section on multimedia is excellent.
Rating: - Fantastic Book!
There are good books, and then there are fantastic ones. "Ubuntu Linux Toolbox" is the latter! You will be pleased to find that this book covers a vast amount of usable content in an easy to follow format, all the while sparing the reader from useless history and installation filler content that many other books seem to regurgitate over and over again. I mean, how many times do you really need to read about how to install Ubuntu? The content is clear, concise, and useful for day to day tasks and objectives, no matter if you are an experienced GNU/Linux administrator, or simply eager to learn how to become one. This book gets a well deserved 5 star rating.
Rating: - Perfect Book for Power Users Wanting to Extend Their Skills
Hey folks... I've been an RHCE since 2000, training RHCEs since 2003, and "doing Linux" since 1996.
What I like:
The three big things that I like about Linux Toolbox are:
1) It concisely shows you how to use the Linux command line to solve many of the most common personal and administrative tasks.
2) It uses the proven "learn by doing" method to show the reader how to just "get stuff done" from the Linux command line.
3) What really sets this book apart from other "next level" type books is its well thought layout and how they organized the content in a quickly accessible way. Negus & Caen split the content out by Shell stuff, Working w/Files, Text Manipulation, Multimedia, Administration, Backups, Networking, etc.. . Well thought out and quickly useful as an on-hand reference.
So who should buy this book?
I see it being a "best fit" for two groups of people:
1) Technical users and admins who want to become more competent on the command line and be able to do ten times more work thought automation (scripting).
2) Windows power users who want to become more savvy on the Linux side (Linux power user wannabes). Especially those who need to get Linux CLI/shell proficient quickly (such as Windows sys-admins who have had Linux forced on them)
Old Timers Too:
The cool thing is that even if you've been using Linux for years (as I have), there are still useful "Oooo.. cool!" moments peppered throughout the book. Do you know how to properly (and quickly) get the most out of classic power tools like find, sed, awk, case, and tr? Are you armed with experience in all the newer über tools such as screen, dmidecode, growisofs? Do you know how to do software RAID from the command line (mdadm) or know how to build & control LVM via its command line tools? If you answered "no" to any of these.. you should check check out Linux Toolbox.
Negus and Caen have a winner here. Good job guys.
Tweeks
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